"How do you expect to win back men...?" We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.

People act like all the men are gone. The men are attending protests. The men are putting together scooters for their kids. The men are getting a set of turntables for the first time. The men are buying Nikes. The men are getting super into noir. They're not Nazis and they're fine. Keep your freaks.

This is not a joke. It actually happened.

I seriously thought it was a huge spood friend and i could share some new content for #Arachtober, I didn't think it would be a wall crab... Who would've thunk? So here's (multiple photos of) a cute crab for our crab feed. (Link to feed in reply) #Photography #Invertebrate 🦀 #EastCoastKin

Maybe its just me but the whole “hey white people show off your nazi phase” apologia thing thats happening is weird as shit because it shows what kind of heinous shenanigans you’ll accept and people are 100% right to judge you for it

"A 60-year-old couple earning $85,000 may have to pay $31,000 for a health insurance plan in Kentucky... $28,000 for a plan in Oregon... $44,000 for a plan in Vermont..." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

this is what the fear litany means when it says you have to face your fear and let it wash over and through you so that when you turn to face the path the fear laid, only you remain

The AWS outage interfered with our cats’ automatic feeders and yes I am already embarrassed I assure you I have adequate shame already

Cherie Priest is a criminally underrated QUEEN OF SPOOKY SEASON and you should stock up on enough of her back catalog now to keep Spooky Season going all year.

gender affirming care of many different kinds is common and widely accepted for cis people!

apparently my sister's elderly mostly blind and deaf pug decided she was going to take a swim in the pool yesterday, because my sister sent the group chat a security cam video of herself using the pool net to scoop her out

i’m also reminded of how thinking exclusively in terms of issue polling really puts a limit on political creativity.

the piece makes no attempt to grapple with that question, which is the actual thing people are arguing about.

this feels completely banal? yes, a big tent political party is going to include voters who have bigoted views. i don’t think anyone has argued otherwise? the actual question at hand is “to what extent should a political party ostensibly committed to equality appeal to popular prejudices?”

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On top of everything the fuck else, a crucial task of the insurgent wing of the Democratic Party right now is to make it the anti-Nazi party in US politics.

You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.

"Oh so there's no path to redemption?" Sure there is. Most paths to redemption don't run through the U.S. Senate, though. Go, live a good life. Farm oysters. Diminish and go into the East and be an always improving Graham Platner. Do not be a Senator. And remove that fucking tat.

I really liked what he was saying. But if there's any way to recover from "hey man you have a fucking SS Nazi tattoo on your tiddy and thought it was OK to have one," he did not find that path, and it's not puritanical or exclusionary to say so, and its ridiculous to even have to explain this.

I honestly don't think centrists believe anything at all. Just as I don't want to see a "mainstream" presidential candidate who hounds homeless people and abandons trans people, I don't want a "progressive" Senator with a Nazi tattoo. The uprights aren't narrow here. This shouldn't be hard.

"You are open to considering and integrating newly uncovered facts into your worldview" is not a flaw, and quite frankly, I don't trust anyone who thinks it is! Steve!!!

Reminds me of the dumb little fights I would get into in my internet youth on creationist vs. everyone else forums. "They change the textbooks EVERY YEAR!" yes, Steve, because they keep discovering new things. That's how science works. That's why your doctor doesn't bleed you anymore for the flu.

Like, for each kilobyte of lost irreplaceable stuff, rainforests are being burned and Black neighborhoods poisoned to pump out a megabyte of absolute fucking nonsense.

Over a third of the old internet no longer exists, 87% of all video games before 2009 are lost media, 40% of the Million Dollar Homepage was dead links as of 2019, etc. *And* this media void is being filled with mindboggling quantities of ai slop. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mil...

I do some of the largest scale mutual aid work on the planet. You absolutely cannot mutual aid your way out of state capacity. You can reduce some of the short-term harm via mutual aid. But that's a stop-gap measure, and here's why.🧵

Now wondering how many of these white folks have a friend who has a Nazi tattoo

they'd rather hang out with nazis than be yelled at by leftists

I respect that there are no perfect candidates and purity tests lead to political stasis but also I’d really love it if more politicians could overcome the very minor barrier of “never did Nazi shit”

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

If being against a guy with a Nazi tattoo makes me a purist I guess I'm an anti-Nazi purist. If you think that makes me an anti-Nazi single issue voter, you're wrong, but also it's a pretty good single issue. There is more than a year. Go get another real progressive who doesn't have a Nazi tattoo.

Doing my part to push back against the narrative of autonomous inevitability when it comes to genAI

A Nicobar pigeon almost glowing in its magnificence 💚 #Birds #Pigeons #BirdOfTheDay #Green #SideEye #Photography #Birdscrolling

A gorgeous new-to-me slime mould from a rotting ash hulk. I think it keys out to Lamproderma arcyrioides. #slimemold #slimemould #myxomycetes #lamproderma #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk

This week is #InvisibleDisabilitiesWeek. My chronic illnesses are an invisible disability, especially #MECFS. ME/CFS is a neuroimmune disease that has a worse quality of life measurement than any other. This #Sciart #symptomatology #embroidery, body map, maps out my symptoms as they were in 2016.

These photos are incredible. The slime mold releasing spores (thirteenth place) is gorgeous

Am super happy that, according to inaturalist, I correctly identified this as dog vomit slime mold (Fuligo septica). Woot!🥳🥳🤓 Imma fan of slime mold, no matter how unkind the common name. 🐶🤮🍄‍🟫 How AMAZING is that yellow?!? 🤩🤩🤩

I don't know how many of y'all that follow me care BUT I highly recommend uninstalling this app periodically to kind of reset your expectations of it and take a break. Remember that you are a person that deserves care and cannot function if you allow the doomscroll to drown you.

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

Oh what’s that? They will depreciate at roughly 3 times the rate previously touted and require constant replacement and 2-3x the revenue to match initial expenditure?

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

i want a "resistance ranking" for dems that grades them on how seriously they're taking this something like support for: 1. prosecuting gop criminality 2. court reform 3. procedural agressiveness 4. end ICE 5. trans rights 6. calling this fascism + points for having taken personal risks

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

idk why the youtube algo fed me this but i can't describe how scary & weird it is being a woman knowing these freaks are doing presentations on how to understand & conquer us like. we are just people. have you tried being fucking normal. i will never get used to society being like this

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

You can wear this one and hold a sign that says we're all trying to find antifa

squad goals

ah-woo.